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Poem by William Ernest Henley


To My Wife


Take, dear, my little sheaf of songs,
For, old or new,
All that is good in them belongs
Only to you;

And, singing as when all was young,
They will recall
Those others, lived but left unsung –
The best of all 



William Ernest Henley


William Ernest Henley's other poems:
  1. Attadale, West Highlands
  2. In Hospital. 12. Etching
  3. Envoy
  4. Echoes. 17. The Sands Are Alive with Sunshine
  5. Rhymes and Rhythms. 23. Here They Trysted, Here They Strayed


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Oscar Wilde To My Wife ("I can write no stately proem")
  • James Maxwell To My Wife ("Oft in the night, from this lone room")
  • Gerald Massey To My Wife ("LIKE those Ambassadors of old, that went")
  • Alexander Posey To My Wife ("I’ve seen the beauty of the rose")
  • Mortimer Collins To My Wife ("Fast falls the snow, O lady mine!")

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